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With an Elo rating of 2739, Liem will attend the Prague International Chess Festival 2025 as the third seed, behind Wei Yi of China and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa of India.

Nguyen, currently ranking 65th in the world among female players, has represented Vietnam seven times at the Chess Olympiad. At the 2024 event, she achieved a performance rating of 2,442, winning three matches, drawing one, and losing one.

Vietnam will send the strongest squad, including Super Grandmaster Le Quang Liem to compete at the 33rd SEA Games this December in Thailand.

Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem has risen to the 13th place in the world after his impressive performance at the 2024 Chess Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary from September 10-23, according to the Live Chess Ratings website.

The 2024 ASEAN+ Age-group Chess Championship kicked off on August 22 in Vientiane with 180 players from eight countries. Vietnam has the largest delegation, with 124 participants.

Vietnam's youth chess team ranked third after securing 10 gold, 16 silver, and 15 bronze medals at the 2024 Asian Youth Chess Championship held in Kazakhstan from June 9-21, the Vietnam Chess Federation announced on June 21.

At the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD) 19 to be held in China in September, Vietnam aims for gold medals in seven out of the 31 sports that Vietnamese athletics will compete.

Young Vietnamese chess players won three gold, two silver, and one bronze medals in the rapid chess category at the FIDE World Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships 2023 that is taking place from June 5-12 in Batumi, Georgia.

As of 8:30 pm on July 8, the Vietnamese delegation pocketed 66 gold, 56 silver, and 77 bronze medals, ranking third in the medal tally after Indonesia and Thailand at the 12th ASEAN Para Games in Cambodia.

Vietnamese athletes are competing at 12th ASEAN Para Games, which takes place on June 3-9 in Cambodia. Join us to see their achievements on June 8.

Vietnam won more gold medals in swimming and chess on August 5, maintaining its 3rd place on the medal tally at the ongoing 11st ASEAN Para Games in Surakarta city, Indonesia.

Vietnam bagged 28 golds after three days into the ongoing 11th ASEAN Para Games in Indonesia, almost completing its target of 35-40 gold medals.

The Vietnamese chess team topped the medal tally of the sport at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) held in the northern province of Quang Ninh with seven gold medals.

Vietnam's Le Thi Kim Loan outperformed Malaysia’s Xin Ru Jee in the final of the women’s xiangqi (Chinese chess) standard singles in Quang Ninh on May 20, securing another gold medal for Vietnam at SEA Games 31.

Vietnamese players Le Tuan Minh and Pham Le Thao Nguyen bagged golds in the men’s and women’s individual blitz chess at the ongoing SEA Games 31 on May 20.

Vietnamese chess players won gold in the men’s and and silver in the women’s team rapid chess events at SEA Games 31 on May 19.

Married couple Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Pham Le Thao Nguyen enjoyed their second big day by triumphing in the men’s and the women’s individual rapid chess at the ongoing SEA Games 31 almost at the same time on May 17.

Three Vietnamese players have entered semi-finals of the individual rapid chess competition at SEA Games 31, but grandmaster Le Quang Liem was not among them.

Grandmaster (GM) Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son earned the first gold medal for Vietnamese chess on May 15 in the framework of the ongoing 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31).

Nine Vietnamese chess players are setting their sights on five gold medals at the ongoing SEA Games 31, as their competition officially kicked off in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh on May 10.